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a splendid form of 0. Alexandra? — all from Mr Wilson, gardener to 

 William Marshall, Esq., Enfield. Mr Wilson staged three forms of 0. 

 Alexandra?, in ascending scales of quality, and quite distinct, though 

 of the same species. The one to which the certificate was awarded had 

 flowers nearly as large again as is usually seen ; the spots also were 

 much larger and more dense. Dendrobium cucullatum giganteum, 

 very fine ; D. thrysifloruni, a handsome new species with white petals 

 and a rich lemon lip; the small but pretty purple -tinted Yanda 

 coerulescens ; and a white form of Leelia Pilcheri, named Alba, 

 from Messrs Veitch & Sons ; Angrascum Ellisii, a recent introduction 

 from Madagascar, producing small waxy -like flowers, from Mr B. 

 S. Williams; and Ophyrs insectifera, belonging to the half-hardy 

 division of these elegant ground Orchids, and introduced from the 

 Pyrenees — this came from Mr Neale, gardener to H.R.H. the Comte 

 de Paris, Twickenham. So far new Orchids may be said to have been 

 well represented. 



In the way of ornamental-foliaged plants, the same award was made 

 to two very handsome and graceful Palms — viz., Thrinax elegans and 

 Dseinonoops plumosus, the first from Mr William Bull, the second from 

 Mr Green, gardener to W. Wilson Saunders, Esq., who also had a 

 good-looking succulent named Agave cuspidata, quite distinct in form, 

 to which a similar award was made ; as also to Encephalartos mira- 

 bilis, an African species, also from Mr W. Bull ; to Draca3na Guilfoylei, 

 having a habit similar to D. indivisa, the leaves having a stripe or 

 band of green along the centre, and an edging of blush and rose ; to a 

 capital hybrid Solanum, of compact growth, and in consequence named 

 compactum, and bearing a good quantity of bright-coloured berries — 

 both from Mr B. S. Williams ; and to Echeveria agavoides, having the 

 appearance of a small and compact-growing Agave, from Mr Perkins, 

 nurseryman, Leamington. 



In the way of hardy ornamental plants, Messrs J. Waterer & Sons, 

 Bagshot, received first-class certificates for Betinospora obtusa erecta, 

 a handsome, close-growing, neat-habited form, and for Cupressus Law- 

 soniana aurea, a deep golden variegated form of considerable merit ; 

 Mr B. S. Williams for Peristrophe angustifolia aurea variegata, a 

 dwarf -growing, wiry-habited plant, that promises well as- a bedder 

 if sufficiently hardy — a native of the mountains of Java; and to 

 Mr William Paul, for a handsome golden-leaved Euonymus, named 

 navescens. 



Of new florists' flowers, Mr C. Turner, Slough, received first-class 

 certificates for a beautiful blush-coloured hybrid perpetual Pose named 

 Marquise de Mortemart, for Azalea Mrs Turner, with large pinkish 

 salmon-coloured flowers, margined with white, and spotted with crimson- 



